Bug 1560928 – CVE-2018-5148 firefox: Use-after-free in compositor potentially allows code execution

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Bug 1560928 - (CVE-2018-5148) CVE-2018-5148 firefox: Use-after-free in compositor potentially allows code execution

Summary:	CVE-2018-5148 firefox: Use-after-free in compositor potentially allows code e...

Status:	NEW

Aliases:	CVE-2018-5148

Product:	Security Response
Classification:	Other
Component:	vulnerability (Show other bugs)
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Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All Linux

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Assigned To:	Red Hat Product Security
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Keywords:	Security

Depends On:	1561277 1560930 1560931 1561273 1561274 1561275 1561276
Blocks:	1560933
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Reported:	2018-03-27 05:41 EDT by Adam Mariš
Modified:	2018-10-31 18:56 EDT (History)
CC List:	10 users (show)

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Fixed In Version:	firefox 59.0.2, firefox 52.7.3
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Tracker	ID	Priority	Status	Summary	Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata	RHSA-2018:1098	None	None	None	2018-04-10 12:48 EDT
Red Hat Product Errata	RHSA-2018:1099	None	None	None	2018-04-10 12:08 EDT

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Description Adam Mariš 2018-03-27 05:41:32 EDT

A use-after-free vulnerability can occur in the compositor during certain graphics operations when a raw pointer is used instead of a reference counted one. This results in a potentially exploitable crash.

External References:

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2018-10/

Comment 1 Adam Mariš 2018-03-27 05:42:23 EDT

Created firefox tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1560930]

Comment 3 Doran Moppert 2018-03-27 22:16:27 EDT

Statement:

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 is now in Extended Life Phase of the support and maintenance life cycle. This issue is not currently planned to be addressed in future updates. For additional information, refer to the Red Hat Enterprise Linux Life Cycle: https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/errata/.

Comment 8 errata-xmlrpc 2018-04-10 12:08:05 EDT

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Via RHSA-2018:1099 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:1099

Comment 9 errata-xmlrpc 2018-04-10 12:48:05 EDT

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Via RHSA-2018:1098 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:1098

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